1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Columbiad

The Columbiad was Jules Verne's fictional giant cannon in his 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon — a cast-iron behemoth buried in the Florida soil and used to launch a projectile manned by three passengers toward the lunar surface. Verne calculated its specifications with genuine ballistic mathematics, and NASA engineers have acknowledged the novel's uncanny accuracy in predicting a Florida launch site and a splashdown recovery. Niue has built a substantial collector program around science fiction and literary themes, licensing designs that larger sovereign mints would not touch.